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Jon Pugh is an Academic Fellow in Territorial Governance in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He finished his ESRC-funded PhD (University of London) in 2002, going on to the Centre for the Study of Democracy (linked to the Policy Studies Institute), undertaking a three year ESRC Fellowship. He has lived and worked in Paris for two years (owning a juggling ball business) and the Caribbean (as an ESRC Fellow and PhD student).

Qualifications

1st Class Hons, BSc in Biology and Geography;
ESRC funded PhD and three year Fellowship

Research Interests

Jon's major interests include: participatory and environmental planning in the Caribbean; the theoretical relationship between space, time and the political; an elaboration of Stanley Cavell’s reading of moral perfectionism and the rise of post- and anti-political trends in territorial governance. As part of his five-year IPP/GURU Fellowship at Newcastle, Jonathan is focusing upon these specific themes, whilst also co-developing an academic network entitled ‘The Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space’ (with Chantal Mouffe and Doreen Massey).

Other Expertise

Jon has around forty publications in the fields of planning practice and theory, political philosophy, geography, development studies and international relations. He works through a wide range of media: from academic journals to consultancy, newspapers, radio and television. Fully funded by the ESRC and DFID (total £200K) for the last six years, his projects have included: the leading ‘Participatory Planning in the Caribbean’ network (\3www.planningcaribbean.org.uk) (ESRC) and ‘Developing Institutional Capacity Building in Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean’ (DFID), which employed hundreds of fisherpeople across the region. Another three-year research programme (ESRC) explored various aspects of planning in the Caribbean, resulting in the publication of the first co-edited monograph on participatory planning in the region and the most up-to-date co-edited text on environmental planning in the Caribbean. Jonathan has also co-initiated the first Caribbean regional union for fisherpeople, which has presently spread across seven countries. His visiting lecture positions have included the University of California and the University of West Indies.

Current Work

Jon is presently working on a series of requested publications for world-leading journals, reflecting his interest in anti- and post-political trends in territorial governance.
He is also developing the network 'The Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space', with Doreen Massey and Chantal Mouffe.